Frank Castle, the one-man army known as the Punisher, has dedicated his life to waging war with the criminal underworld. For decades readers thought the ex-Marine's crusade began with the brutal murder of his loving wife and daughter in Central Park at the hands of the Mafia. But that isn't the whole story. In the tradition of WOLVERINE: ORIGIN, witness the true birth of the Punisher years before, as Frank Castle the man enters his third tour of duty in Vietnam, but leaves a force of nature.